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Wikipedia is 10 years old today

Jane Hart

Happy Birthday Wikipedia! Listen to Jimmy Wales talk about Wikipedia over the last 10 years and has a call for action. Wikipedia is being celebrated all over the globe. Find out more about the events taking place here.

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Modeling mental models

Clark Quinn

Wikipedia defines them as “an internal representation of external reality” Really, it’s an explanation of how a small part of the world works. To start with, what are mental models? For instance, a thermostat uses the temperature as a way to determine whether to turn on or off a heater or cooling device.

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ChatGPT-3 Has Everyone Talking

Learningtogo

The autoregressive part means the software uses prior events to predict the most likely future events, which is what your brain does all the time. First, Open AI used the largest training dataset, combining a database containing much of the internet, a huge library of books, and Wikipedia. All Rights Reserved.

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eLearning Glossary: Definitions for the Most Commonly Used Terms

Association eLearning

This is where an association stores data on their members and prospective members for tracking memberships, managing newsletter subscriptions, offering special gifts, sending invitations to events and workshops, and promoting discounts on products and services. In short, Andragogy is another way to say adult education.

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eLearning Glossary Part 2: More Commonly Used Terms

Association eLearning

Instructional Designer (ID)- Taken from Wikipedia , an instructional designer is one who creates “instructional experiences which make the acquisition of knowledge and skill more efficient, effective, and appealing. They’re the same old chores, but that added promise of reward makes people more willing to do them.

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Happy 10th birthday, Wikipedia!

Jay Cross

Wikipedia’s 10th Anniversary: January 15, 2011. This special tenth anniversary is being celebrated by parties and events around the world; see ten.wikipedia.org. San Francisco, California. Theme — Wikimedia: The Next 10 Years. I’ll take a few snapshots for you. In the news.

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Collaborative Learning Lessons from Wikipedia (and Small Insects.

Dashe & Thomson

A remarkable example of this phenomenon can be found in Wikipedia, a completely user-driven Collaborative Knowledge Support System (my own term) that has become not only the most all-encompassing compendium of knowledge in world history, but increasingly the resource of choice for information on current events.

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